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With that price you get "twice as powerful as the latest MacBook Pro. ...up to 17 hours of video playback. That’s 70% more than the latest MacBook Pro."

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The “twice as powerful” is almost certainly just about the GPU. The CPU is a U series part versus the HQ series part in the MBP.

Industry secret: apple throttles those cpu to 20W.

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LOL. This very discussion on HN. And dozens of results after googling with 'apple cpu macbook pro TDP'.

The 8th gen U-series i7 in the SB2 is a quad-core, 8-thread beast with TDP-up of 25 watts, 8 MB cache and 4.2 GHz turbo.

https://ark.intel.com/products/124968/Intel-Core-i7-8650U-Pr...

I'll believe those figure on battery life when someone independent confirms it.

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